Fear of flying, reviewed: An example of evidence-based old age psychiatry

Autor:	Gianetta Rands
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Evidence-based practice fungi medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Fear of flying 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine medicine Old age psychiatry Dementia 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Psychology
Zdroj:	Psychiatric Bulletin. 26:188-190
ISSN:	1472-1473 0955-6036
Popis:	‘Doctor, would it be alright to take mum to Cyprus for a family wedding?’ In a cosmopolitan city such as London hardly a month goes by without hearing a similar sort of query. If ‘mum’ has dementia I tend to advise the family against flying. This advice is based on anecdotal observations from past clinical practice. I have witnessed a number of patients experience significant deterioration in cognition following flying. While disorientation in unfamiliar environments may explain some of the difficulties in travelling for a person with dementia, as illustrated by John Bayley in Iris (1998), this may not be the only explanation. On this occasion, I decided to use evidence-based practice to review the situation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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